[PDF] The Readers Companion To Us Womens History eBook

Author : Wilma Mankiller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618001828

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Covers issues and events in women's history that were previously unpublished, misplaced, or forgotten, and provides new perspectives on each event.

Author : Glenna Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Women
ISBN : 0195113179

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Alphabetical articles on major events, documents, persons, social movements, and political and social concepts connected with the history of women in America.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : HMH
Page : 1253 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0547561342

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An A-to-Z historical encyclopedia of US people, places, and events, with nearly 1,000 entries “all equally well written, crisp, and entertaining” (Library Journal). From the origins of its native peoples to its complex identity in modern times, this unique alphabetical reference covers the political, economic, cultural, and social history of America. A fact-filled treasure trove for history buffs, The Reader’s Companion is sponsored by the Society of American Historians, an organization dedicated to promoting literary excellence in the writing of biography and history. Under the editorship of the eminent historians John A. Garraty and Eric Foner, a large and distinguished group of scholars, biographers, and journalists—nearly four hundred contemporary authorities—illuminate the critical events, issues, and individuals that have shaped our past. Readers will find everything from a chronological account of immigration; individual entries on the Bull Moose Party and the Know-Nothings as well as an article on third parties in American politics; pieces on specific religious groups, leaders, and movements and a larger-scale overview of religion in America. Interweaving traditional political and economic topics with the spectrum of America’s social and cultural legacies—everything from marriage to medicine, crime to baseball, fashion to literature—the Companion is certain to engage the curiosity, interests, and passions of every reader, and also provides an excellent research tool for students and teachers.

Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 047099858X

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This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0316286494

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The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not. In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.

Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher :
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN : 0195082095

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In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.